SHADOWLAND
by Karen Engstrom
ISBN: 978-1-964354-07-1
2025 release from SaltyBooks Publishing
This one is a lengthy, sometimes wordy, historical novel of visitors to the northern borders of Minnesota and the nearby wilderness of Canada. The primary setting is magnificent and very well treated by the author. Readers will usually sense the odor of birch and pine, the sounds and movements of the waters and the solitude that permeates the region. Other actions of the characters take place in Chicago, indeed, most of the highly emotional activity results from relationships formed in 1920's Chicago. Although classified as an historical novel, some elements and events have been altered in service to the story. Nevertheless, this novel, entangling Carl and Ella in uncertain links to characters, large and small, active in the early, turbulent days of Twentieth Century United States life, will engage and interest any reader interested in organized crime, Prohibition, and the bucolic and serene life of Northern Minnesota.
